The Future Of Internet

A report under the title of “The Future Internet” was published on May 2011 by the UK Future Internet Strategy Group (UK FISG). The following is the summary of the report and how it is related to the subject of our course.

The aim of the importance of internet in future is not only by types and span of services, but in the efficient way they are delivered, placing the end user in control of aspects of quality and cost. But this will not be possible without an advanced wireless and fixed infrastructure to allow access anywhere, anytime, creating an omnipresent fabric linking people and machine-to-machine communications.

The data in future Internet will not be all generated only by people. Decision support will largely depend on billions of multipurpose sensors that are able to constantly update a three-dimensional ‘picture’ of our environment.

The new technologies allow the capture of a vastly increased amount of data, ranging from high-definition video to a massive increase in low-cost multipurpose sensors. The massive increase in the amount of data being generated globally, estimated to increase from 4.5 billion in 2010 to 50 billion globally in 2020.

The Future Internet is not a single entity to be released like a new piece of software at a fixed point in time; it is an evolution rather than invention. The massive increase in the amount of data being generated globally, estimated to increase from 4.5 billion in 2010 to 50 billion globally in 2020.

A key focus of this report is to identify the main enabling components which is broken done to the three categories that will allow a ‘market’ based on the concept of the Future Internet and the advanced connectivity and mobility features it provides.

Category one is capable access mechanism, which will encompass a wireless, and fixed

network transport that is future proof over a 20-year time frame. These include moving from IPv4, with its limited addressing capability, to IPv6, which to all intents and purposes provide infinite address capability.

Category two is the Cloud infrastructure, which consist of the development of data security methodologies and trusted access systems that allow a user to access the fabric on the Future Internet anywhere, any time.

Category three is the Converged services, which represent a transformational change in the way organizations, both private and public, deliver services, requiring them to develop new business models and technology implementations.

The following are the recommendations of this report to achieve the effective steps to reach a profitable and effective future internet.

• In order to maximize the penetration of Future Internet style services to business and citizens, is the creation of advisory board consist of several governmental agencies to develop and follow in the areas of interdepartmental priorities to drive innovation and bring together a Future Internet ICT strategy.

• Creation of a smart city centre to coordinate the internet mechanism in future.

• Internet services would be based on ‘cloud infrastructure’, a global system of shared communications, computing and storage.

• The issues around personal data security, data provenance, user confidence, motivation, consent and access mechanisms require much research before implementation of them to be done.

• Research is required around system architectures access methodologies and payment models for future internet technology.

As students in master of  internet technology at UGA, we should be in the front line of knowing the future internet issues and providing solutions to the possible issues that IT may encounter in the aspects of data, services, and infrastructure of internet. Therefore most of our practices and topics are improving our know how toward becoming a proficient IT specialist.